A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... poet's nature to appreciate his product , or to know how poetry is created to like it . Yet to have some ele- mentary knowledge of the poet may aid the student in understand- ing poetry itself . In the first place , the poet has an ...
... poet's nature to appreciate his product , or to know how poetry is created to like it . Yet to have some ele- mentary knowledge of the poet may aid the student in understand- ing poetry itself . In the first place , the poet has an ...
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... poet is endowed with a fine sense for melody and form , which guides him in selecting the proper pat- tern for his thought . Thus he is able to wed sense and sound in such way that good poetry always gives us the impression that for any ...
... poet is endowed with a fine sense for melody and form , which guides him in selecting the proper pat- tern for his thought . Thus he is able to wed sense and sound in such way that good poetry always gives us the impression that for any ...
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... poet at- tempts to build up result chiefly from an appeal to the emotions , and for that reason are fragile and hence likely to be destroyed by the slightest incongruity , the poet must select his words with the utmost discrimination ...
... poet at- tempts to build up result chiefly from an appeal to the emotions , and for that reason are fragile and hence likely to be destroyed by the slightest incongruity , the poet must select his words with the utmost discrimination ...
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abab accent anapest antistrophe basic foot beauty birds blank verse Browning's called catalexis century cesura CHAPTER common consonants couplet Cowleyan dactyl death doth drama edited elements emotion employed English poetry English verse envoy epode examples experience expression feeling feet free verse give Greek hath Heaven heroic epic iamb iambic pentameter ideas imagination important Italian form Keats language light lines LONGFELLOW love thee Lowell's lyric poetry matter Matthew Arnold metre metrical scheme Milton mind narrative poetry night o'er pause person Pindar poem poet poetic popular ballad prose prosody qualities quatrain rhetorical rhythm rime-scheme riming words Robert Bridges Rose sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's sing song sonnet soul sounds Spenser stanza stanzaic forms story stress strophe structure student sweet syllables rime TENNYSON tercet themes things thou thought tion trochaic trochee understanding unstressed syllables usually vowels W. B. Yeats Whitman's WORDSWORTH writing written